Zack Morris called: your phone is showing

So, I think I am obsessed now. All night I was brewing up some great new idea for my first "real" post on this new blog. And, I hope you know what I mean when I say that I actually feel excited when I see that someone has commented on my first post. I told B about the fact that "we" (of course by "we" I mean "I") have a blog now, and he asked me what I named it. When I told him it was named "The Wilky Way" he laughed. But, it wasn't the "that's awesome" laugh, it was the "you're serious?" laugh. I told him he was probably just jealous that he didn't come up with it, and that he should just be glad I didn't name it the "Wilkinson Center". Then he reminded me that I couldn't do that anyway because it's his Dad's email address. So much for original thought.
But, I have decided that having a blog is like getting your first cell phone. I got my first cell phone on Christmas of 2000. And, if you do the math right, I'm pretty sure I was too young to have one. But, my goodly parents were probably still trying to make up for the "fish-tank" Christmas...so, I was happy to have a cell phone. I thought for sure that my cell phone came straight from Zack Morris, because I couldn't even fit it in my purse. (Not to mention that my purse was a jean pocket with a zipper on top). So, I never used the phone. Because I didn't know how, and I didn't think I needed it. Everyplace I went had a phone...the church, the school office, my friend's house, Subway, King's Soopers (I didn't really go anywhere else), so I didn't think I needed a phone.
Fast forward 6 years later, when I couldn't even imagine living WITHOUT a cell phone and I met my future-husband. He gave me his personal phone number, and when I called his number for the first time, I was shocked to hear a GIRL'S voice on the other end. To my surprise, it was his little sister. What?!? This guy doesn't have a CELL phone?! Well, he quickly taught me that he was going to wait until he absolutely needed a cell phone before he got one. And, he actually held out until May of 2007. That is almost 6 1/2 years AFTER I got my first cell phone.

So, I think a blog is like getting a cell phone. Everybody has one now, and I didn't. Instead of people asking me what my phone number was, they would say, "what's your blog address?" Whoa. Insert blogspot.com.
So, to all of you veteran bloggers who have trudged through the changes of blogspot, I tip my hat off to you (my ski hat, I don't really own any other hats). I, on the other hand wanted to wait until I absolutely couldn't take it anymore. And, I have succumbed. And I love it.